Towel cabinet



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NITED STATES GEUBGE ADOLPH STEINER, F SALT LAKE CITY., UTAH, ASSIGNOR TO STEINER SALES COMPANY, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, A CORPORATION 0F UTAH.

TOWEL CABINET.

Application filed December 27, 1921. Serial No. 525,024.

To all whom zt may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. STEINER, a citizen of the United States, resident of Salt Lake City, county of Salt Lake, State of Utah, have invented certain new and use- ,ful lfmprovements in Towel Cabinets, of

soiled portion of the towel from winding up on its proper roll.

A further object is to provide means at the lower front portion of the cabinet to prevent anyone from reaching in under the clean towel roll and unwinding it or in any way interfering with its normal feeding movement.

A further object is to provide means at the lower rear portion of the cabinet to prevent anyone from reachin up in the rear of the clean towel roll an operating it or in any way interfering with its normal movement.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following detailed description.

/The inventionconsists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 1s a vertical sectional view through a towel cabinet embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 'of Figure 1, looking toward the rear of the cabinet, A

Figure 3 is a detail view ofthe feed roll cha-in drive, showing the means for preventing backward movement of the drive chain and sprockets.

In the drawings, 2 represents the wall of the cabinet, having a door 3 at the front thereof and guides 4 and 5 in the side walls of the shafts v6 and 7 of the towel rolls 8 and 9. When the door 3 is opened, the slots or guides 4 and 5 are exposed to allow the convenient insertion of the roll shafts therein or their removal therefrom. The clean towel roll is preferably placed in the lower guideways in the cabinet and the inner ortions of both of the guideways are preferalbly turned downwardly in a vertical position, substantially so that when the shafts are inserted therein the rolls carried thereby will be supported by gravity. The roll 8 rests upon a feed or control roll 10 which has a shaft 11 mounted in the side wall of the casing and is connected by a bolt or chain 12 with the other control or feed roll 13 that is mounted upon a shaft 14. The surface of the roll 10 is preferably covered with sandpaper or rubber, and the. clean towel roll rests by gravity thereon with sufficient friction toI revolve and transmit its movement through the belt or chain 12 to the other feed roll above which is the soiled towel roll 9.

I prefer to wrap the feed roll 13 with a belt 15 having a series of studs 16 therein which contact with the surface of the soiled towel roll. When the cabinet is operated properly, the soiled towel roll will ride easily on the ends of the studs or wires in the periphery of the roll 13, but if anyone should attempt to pull the soiled towel roll backward, or attempt to hold it from revolving to roll up the towel thereon while the clean towel is being fed from its roll, then the ends of the wires in the belt 15 will stick into the roll of soiled towel and hold it firmly and` prevent backward movement thereof.

The lower portion of the casing has a transverse brace 17 and in front of this brace is an opening 18 through which the clean portion of the towel depends, and I prefer to arrange a bracket 19 onthe lower portion of the door to project into this space 18l and prevent anyone thrusting the hand up under the cabinet and unrolling the clean towel. This bracket also compels the user to exert a perpendicular downward ull on the clean towel, sufficient pressure bemg .obtained thereby to operate the feed roll 10 and from it the roll 13. This pressure also prevents the clean roll from slipping in its operation and the downward pull thereon increases the friction between it and the feed or control roll beneath. l

At the rear of the cabinet is a passage 20 through which the soiled portion of the towel passes and a shield 21 having a ledge or shelf at its lower end is pivoted at 22 and has the function of preventing the hand from being thrust up under the cabinetin the rear ofthe roll of clean toweling and unrolling it or in any way interfering with the proper operation of the rolls.

At the to of the cabinet I prefer to provide a shie d '23 ,pivoted at 24 in the rear and near the soiled towel roll and projecting upwardly above the top of the roll and having an upper edge over which the s oiled towel passes to' its" roll beneath. Arms 25 are provided at the upper end of the shield It lwill be noted thatboth the clean and I soiled towel rolls rest by gravity vupon the feed br control rolls beneath.- y

a I c laimfas-Jny invention: y

l. A towel vcabinet comprising a easing, cleanand soiledtowel rolls therein, av-shield pivotedgatgits bottom in the rear of the'eabinet and overwhich the soiled tpwel is guided, a releasable late h forv holding the-shield theeasing near its botton,""said towel .inl

in its rearward position, a sliieldvpivoted to assing over one roll to the other being'beind said shields, said last mentioned shield having an angular extension, a bracket at the bottomof the casing which coacts with said'4 angular extension to prevent access .through .the bot-tom of the casingl to the .towel roll.` 4 t 2. A,towel cabinet comprising av casing,

clean and soiled -towel-rolls mounted therein,

feed rolls fQ-rsaid towel rolls having a driving connection between them, the soiled' towel feed roll having pins in its peripheral surface, the soiled towel extending upwardly- .i n the badstof the casing, a shield angular in form mounted in the upper por` tion of said casing and having a horizontal and vertical part between which and the rear of the' casing'the soiled'towelis directed, thehoriz'ontal part of the shield preventing access through the lower-part of the casing to the soiled towel roll, a latch for the shie'ld which when released allows the shield to be tilted forwardly and the towel passed back of the shield and extended to the soiled towel roll and feed roll where, it may be v held by said pins so that theshield may be pushed backand smooth the towel and the shield latched in its backward position, a

4second-shield in the casing'near its bottom,

said towel in passing from one roll to th'e other being behind both saidshields. y

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my lhand this twentieth day of December,

GEORGE DOLPH' STEINER. 

